The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-18
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


DR. FAssETT of st. Adams, who has been
seriously ill, is improving gradually.
MICHAEL DELEHANTY, aged six years.
was found drowned at Burlington Friday.
A NINE-YEAR-oLp son of Molly Collier was
drowned at Burlington by falling from a
wharf
THE famed sea-serpent of Lake Cham
plain was seen again Friday near Juniper
Island.
REV. Mr.. AMsDEN of Colchester has &C
cepted a call from the Charleston Congre-
gational church.
THE fiftieth anniversary of the marriage
of Deacon Green Nichols and wife OF STAN
ford was celebrated last week.
THE Congregational church of Rutland is
to be repaired, and improvements will be
made on the buildings and grounds.
THE annual diocesan convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church of Vermont is
to be held at Burlington June 10 and IL.
A BOARD of trade has been formed in
Burlington, with General William Wells as
president and A. G.. Whittemore secretary.
RICHARD HAMLEy, a pauper at the Middle
bury alms-h house, aged seventy, committed
suicide Monday by cutting his throat with
razor.
THE acknowledgement has appointed
George w. Davis postmaster at East Or
ange and Francis Marthen at East Hub
bardton.
REV. S. NJ. SMART of Troy, N. Y, chap
lain of the old Fourteenth Vermont Regi-
ment, will deliver the Memorial day adj
dress at Middlebury.
JEwETr p CAIN of the Rutland Saturday
Express is talking quite strongly of either
selling or disseminating his paper and going
into the marble business.
The steamers vermont on Lake
Champlain and the Horizon " on Lake
George will begin making their regular
trips for the season Monday, May 30.
COLONEL GEORGE w. HOOKER of Brattle-
boro will deliver the memorial address on
Decoration day at Rochester. Services will
be held in the Congregational church.
REV. A. l.. MoREY, Baptist minister at
West Derby, died suddenly last Thursday.
Cause not stated. His wife is absent in
Maine attending the funeral of her mother.
REV. GEORGE w. PERRY of Rutland will
deliver the Memorial day address at Me-
Gainesville, Judge Nicholson at Whining
ton and Speaker Circuit of Derby at Airing
ton.
the Grand Army Post, was instituted at
Island Pond May 8, with Mrs. NJ. NJ. Buck
as president and Miss NJ. A. Mansur secre-
tary.
THE Peoples Trust Company of st. Adams
has been in existence about four months.
l0ey nave issued UWO Dunureu thirty nine
depostors' books and the deposits on hand
amount to S56,S9S.31.
CHARLES w. THuRBER, for so long the
popular and successful landlord of the Elm
House, Danville, has leased the famous
Dixon House, Underhll, and will take pos
session about June l.
THE Boston papers announce the failure
in that city of Daniel l.. Milliken, publisher.
He formerly resided at Brandon and Brat
f1abnrO hills hing the Tor1DoOS RpcDrH n
ward of twenty years ago.
THE governor has issued a conditional
pardon to Frank Pecor, who, in March, 1878,
was sentenced to twelve years confinement
in the state prison at Windsor for attempted
highway robbery in Rutland.
THE railroad bridge over" Salmon Hole, !"
on the Brattleboro & Whitehall railroad,
near jamaica was burned Thursday night,
presumably by sparks from an engine. The
bridge was about seventy-fve feet long.
ST. PETERS Catholic church of Rutland
has ordered of a Boston firm memorial
organ in memory of the late pastor, Rev. c..
j. Boylan. 1t is twenty-three feet high and
cost $1,000. 1t will be dedicated June 30.
The Lake Champlain Yacht Club at Bur-
lngton was organized Monday, with ex-
Governor Smith as president and Joseph
Aud secretary. Colonel F. E. Smith of
Montpelier is one of the executive com
mittee
THE Lake road and the Burlington &
Lamoille road have come to an agreement,
by which there will be no higher tariff on
freight of all classes from Burlington to all
points East, including Boston, than from
Maquam.
AT st. Johnsbury, Dian, confined in
Jail for infanticide escaped last week Mon
day evening During the day he as
sisted Sheriff Sulloway at whitewashing in
the Jail, and managed during the time to
pick lock,
SOME one hundred tons of overhanging
rock, loOsened by the frost, caved off the
east bank of Black river in the center of the
village of Springfield and crashed fifty feet
into the gorge below, frightening people,
who thought it an earthquake.
EXTENSIVE forest fires ragged in the vicinity
of Bellows Falls last week The fire de-
partment protected village property. A
large area has been burned over. The pyro.
technic display at night was grand The
actual loss is small proportionately
THE Ryegate Mineral Springs Company is
putting its product upon the market and
making an effort to attract people to the
springs The springs are twelve in number
and are located at the foot of a terrace thirty
feet high upon Wells river, in Ryegate.
SrLAs w. CUMMINGS the general pas
senger agent of the Central Vermont rail
way, is a good-looking, genial man, whose
only conceit is wrapped up in his long silker
beard. He wears eyeglasses and looks more
like divinity student than hustling rail
road man.-NelC York Sun.
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE of Vermont and Gen
eral Peck, Ex-Governor Pingree, Genera
Greenleaf, Colonel SeaVer, Colonel ManSur
Colonel Hall and Major Forbes arrived a
Washington Thursday night from the un
yelling of the Sedgwick statue, and left fo
home Friday. They We're received by the
President.
WHILE some men were clearing out tn,
marble mill flume in Swanton they founC
the little son of David Gouthier wedge,
into the rock with some drift-wood. Tn
child was dead, but how long the body ha,
lain in the water or how the little fellow 90
there is unknown. The parents suppose,
he was about the house.
ASA LIVINGSTON got stuck in the snow
yesterday on his way to and near Greens
boro, and was obliged to turn back. A foo
to foot and half of snow is still to b
found in the backwoods roads. Severa
men worked all one day shoveling snow thi
week so that they could get through to tn
Fairbanks mills in Walden with lumber
wagons.-St. Johnsbury Caledonidn, May l.
ALL the conditions imposed by the ac
appropriatng $4,000 toward the compile
ton of the battle monument at Bennington
having been complied with including tn
approval of the design by the secretary O
state, the secretary of the treasury di
rected that an account be started with tn
governor of Vermont and the money appro
priated by congress be placed to his credit.
0ADIRONDACK" MURRAY and the lioht